The surprising departure of Christian Horner from Red Bull Racing shook the Formula 1 world, but few believe this is his definitive farewell from the paddock. His name had already been mentioned to lead Ferrari, but now some reports link him more closely to Alpine, the team where Franco Colapinto races.
"A couple of months ago, since the events in Bahrain last year, Christian's attitude has simply been: "let's move forward, everything continues as usual, I'm still in charge, we're going to get through this"," analyzed Ted Kravitz on Sky Sports F1.
He added: "And he has survived all of that. Since then, he received an approach from Ferrari, and if he had thought he wasn't going to survive (at Red Bull), maybe he would have taken it a bit more seriously. But, with his family, with his three children, does he really want to move with all of them? Move to Italy alone? Take his children out of school? Move with his wife?"
Why Alpine seems like a more logical option
Kravitz stated that, for personal and also professional reasons, Alpine is a more realistic alternative: "I think that, for those personal reasons, and also because maybe he saw that reviving Ferrari (without speaking Italian and without fully knowing the environment) was too steep a hill to climb, Alpine presents itself as a much more viable option. Another team based in the United Kingdom, with Flavio (Briatore) there, and with a structure very similar to Red Bull's. In fact, a large part of Enstone and Milton Keynes are very connected"
